French drug kingpin Mohamed Amra, known as "The Fly", has been transferred to a new supermax prison designed to prevent ...

They are France 's most dangerous drug kingpins, according to the country's justice minister — prison inmates so wealthy and ...

As France's plan to isolate its 100 most dangerous drug traffickers at a high-security prison progresses, the first 17 of the ...

France has plans to build a high-security prison in a remote area of the South American jungle for the nation's most "dangerous" criminals, including drug kingpins.

France is planning to build a brand new high-security prison in the Amazon rainforest, near the site of the notorious Devil’s Island penal colony that inspired the 1973 movie “Papillon ...

Which European countries have rented foreign prison cells? France is not the first country to explore this option. Between 2010 and 2016, Belgium rented 680 prison places in the Dutch town of Tilburg.

Bullet holes in a wall of the Toulon-La Farlède prison on Tuesday. Miguel Medina/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images Mr. Darmanin suggested that drug traffickers had organized the attacks.